Claire had made a brief stab at decorating her home and her life.

A brief stab on a metal strip bounces the hammer off a string pair to produce a single note.

She paused again, a brief stab of pain and loss showing in her eyes.

Laurence realized with a brief stab of guilt that he had scarcely given the dragonet a kind word before this.

There was even a brief stab at interpreting the ways of women.

Once in the night he had woken with a brief stab of flaring pain, but it had quickly passed.

Except for a brief stab of something sharp, a mingling of fear and excitement, he didn't let himself think or feel.

From Dughall, she felt a brief sharp stab of shame.

There was a brief stab of gunfire from the darkness, then another.

A brief stab of loneliness touched her, but she had expected it, and absorbed it.